SATURDAY 15 JUNEØSTRE & THE UNFINISHED INSTITUTION On Saturday 15 June, Ekko announces the first names of artists for Ekko Festival 2024. Join us for this one day release event featuring a performance by Mark Fell and Rian Treanor, the opening of Emily Adomah’s new sound piece “Den 25te symfoni” and a dj-set by CCL (Subglow) & Ekko djs. In…
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Join us for a workshop at BEK, where we dive into the field of neural audio synthesis, a novel audio synthesis technique enabled by advancements in real-time deep learning. This workshop offers participants the opportunity to explore the evolution of sound synthesis alongside artificial neural networks, train their own generative sound synthesizers and explore their sonic possibilities using SEMILLA.AI. Throughout…
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In this workshop, Jenny Berger Myhre invites the participants to create a collective composition based on field recordings and found sound. In addition there will be an introduction in the use of the sound editing program Ableton Live for participants wanting that. We will go through some of the methods Jenny uses to create music from sound archives, by first…
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Mark Fell and Rian Treanor invite artists to join a performance workshop that will explore group dynamics using procedural systems. This workshop hopes to bring together artists working a wide variety of different practices – not only electronic music. This could be voice, movement, projection, acoustic sound, objects, etc. Participants will look at performance as a procedure, developing, exploring and…
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Lin Pei-Han is in a studio residency at BEK, preparing for three upcoming exhibitions in 2024. Lin is currently working on a project that combines animation and video in BEK’s video studio, exploring border research and inherited historical trauma. The project will be showcased at Lin’s solo exhibitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vadsø Kunstforening this summer, and in a…
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BEK begins the new year with presentations from several artists focusing on listening and sound. Please join us for a semester start with performances and presentations, a movie and a workshop connected to BEK’s latest studio residencies and projects. The week starts and ends in Pauline Oliveros’ spirit: try a workshop in Extended Listening inspired by the legendary composer and…
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BEK, in collaboration with Arild Boman, will develop an instrument based on machine learning models trained on original live recordings of Arild Boman’s piece Ecumene performed at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in 1969. BEK and Boman are looking at the possibilities of creating an artificial intelligence that, through these models and an interaction software, enables a relationship between man and…
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Animaphany is a mixture of discovery and repetition. What remains and what is added in the translation from one language to another? What happens to the original content when it’s told by new voices? What happens when historical content is reintroduced in the present, and in what direction does the time travel go? Saturday 17 February18:30BEK, C. Sundts gate 55,…
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If you are working on an art project involving sound, moving image or electronics, you are welcome to apply for a studio residency at BEK lasting for 2–6 weeks. The application deadline is 7 January 2024. This open call applies to residencies in the period 1 February-30 June 2024. We will later announce a second open call for the period…
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As part of the upcoming symposium “The Only Lasting Truth is Change 2023”, BEK invites artists, scholars and foresters to the workshop “Forests as Environmental Media: Vegetalizing a Smart Forests Atlas” led by researcher, writer, and practitioner Jennifer Gabrys. Environmental digital technologies are now planetary in scope, monitoring oceans and farms, cities and atmospheres. Remote sensing satellites and in-situ sensors,…
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